to sleep together
16
4.3
- phrasal verb
- /slip təˈɡɛðər/
:
dormir juntos
- I have to start sometime. It's a long time since we went to bed to sleep together.
- sleep together tonight
- sleep together every night
- sleep together again
And that night her whole family took the couches and she slept together with her mom so that we could take their beds.
- And that night her whole family took the couches and she slept together with her mom so that we could take their beds.
- Like there's girls that could have, you know, gay best friends and they can sleep together or stay around their house and shit.
- So like we can't sleep together within like a couple hours like in one day.
- You know, look, parents, I don't sit down and then me and my wife don't sleep together.
- And part of the reason that it's a taboo is because people think, well, if I'm if we're not sleeping together, then we're not sleeping together.
Examples
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Well, we go to sleep together, we wake up together.
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What is the big deal with the two of you boys sleeping together?
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Why not? - We can sleep together like a big family.
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Tonight they would sleep together.
Fiction book (1992) -
Many people find incredible comfort sleeping together in the same bed.
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We'll take care of each other, and we'll all sleep together in a real pile.
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My sister and I slept together until I got married.
Fiction book (1991) -
And then when it got dark we'd all go to sleep together.
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The girls sleep together and the youngest boy sleeps in a wooden crib that their mother made.
Fiction book (1997) -
Many people find incredible comfort when they sleep together in the same bed.
Synonyms
2
4.1
Share a bed or room meant for one person to save space
To sleep in the same bed or room as another person, often a parent and child
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
sleep + together
The meaning 'to share a bed or sleep in the same space' is directly compositional from 'sleep' (to rest) + 'together' (in the same place/group), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this meaning. While the phrase can sometimes carry a sexual implicature in certain contexts, its basic, literal sense is transparent and parallels similar constructions in many other languages.
Etymology
Sleep together originally meant simply to 'share a bed' or sleep in the same place, for example family members or travellers staying close for comfort. That's why it still commonly means to share a bed or sleeping space even when no sexual meaning is meant.